I like this, as it gets at the fundamental nature of what money really is. It's a medium of exchange for goods and services, so anything that suffices to make exchange possible will do. There's no real reason we need to use the same currency in different domains, as long as everyone involved agrees on the value being exchanged.
What if we had gold or silver coins etched with QR codes?
The woke creep is real, speaking as someone who works in a company that builds web apps.
Why silver, specifically? Should that interact with the digital world of Bitcoin, or should we have two parallel systems of currency to fulfill different needs?
So as far as I can tell, #Bitcoin is great for a digitally-enabled world. What about cases where cash is better, though? Would it be possible to make "Bitcash" that is backed by or translates into Bitcoin? Or would it be better to just be on the gold standard when we're talking about physical money?
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Yep, and thus you need people who can handle all of them adequately, which is potentially more expensive. It's all tradeoffs.
Cross-platform is interesting to me. There are some use cases where it works great, but others where there are enough platform-specific nuances that it'll actually be better to just use multiple different "native" languages/frameworks
Yeah it's mainly used for app development, though I've never done real mobile app development work myself.
Kotlin was billed as the drop-in successor to Java. It never caught on there, but Android adopted it, so lots of Android apps use it now.
Most interesting to me, it can compile into JS as well as into mobile binaries. So you can use Kotlin to write one app and run it on iOS, Android, and the web.
My company used it to build a cross-platform library to unify our analytics workflow across mobile and web.
This sounds like the JS vs. TS debate. Un-typed JS is actually pretty useful sometimes. I personally like TS because it has types, but I can kick them to the curb the moment they're no longer useful.
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I feel like I know enough to at least know, generally, how we get from high-level code down to machine instructions on circuits. If you asked me to program in Assembly, though, I would struggle.
First language I learned was C++.
In college, the first class used Racket, a Lisp derivative. The prof came from a math background, and wanted us to learn functional programming first. I really appreciated that.
I did some toy x86 Assembly stuff in a later class, but never got that deep into it.
In my day job I use Typescript, C#, and occasionally Kotlin and SQL.
If that's the case, then there are more problems to be solved, at least from the perspective of consumers/investors, at the high level. I bet if quantum computing or some other grand innovation took off, we'd see a lot more people specializing in the low-level version of that new tech.
> Computers have not substantially changed in 50 years
Is that due to a lack of low-level engineering talent, or the limitations of our scientific knowledge that computers depend on?
Man I wish I lived somewhere dark enough for that
I'd think an ideal trending algo would be based on some combination of zaps, comments, likes, and length of comment threads.
Maybe multiple feeds.
- "Most zapped" will probably show new work by devs and fun Bitcoiner posts
- "Most liked" will show posts that the plebs like
- "Most comments" will show posts from accounts with many active followers
- "Longest threads" will show you where the fun discourse is actually happening
I want to help parents in their task. Parents can try to protect kids from porn, but often the kids will find it anyways, just because it's so pervasive on the internet. I recognize we'll never be able to get rid of it completely, but I think we should make it harder to find and access.
I agree with you that legislation alone won't fix social malaise. The first task is to change the hearts and minds of individuals.
Where we disagree, I think, is that I believe legislation can be part of a larger movement of cultural change. The law is a teacher. An imperfect one, yes, but still a teacher.
The primary responsibility lies with parents to form their children in virtue, but I think well-ordered laws can give us a little extra nudge away from vice at times when we need it.